A Seat at the Table is a 2.5-hour, beginner-friendly AI workshop for eight women. You use the tool on work you are already responsible for and leave with one useful business task completed.
What is a hands-on AI workshop?
A hands-on AI workshop teaches through supervised practice. Instead of watching a demonstration, every participant uses an AI assistant on her own laptop. The goal is not to understand every technical detail; it is to know what the tool can do, what not to share with it and how to get a useful result you can evaluate.
What you learn
How generative AI works in plain language
You learn enough to understand why an AI assistant can sound confident while being wrong, why your judgment still matters and which tasks are a good fit.
What never to paste into an AI tool
The session covers the practical safety boundary: confidential client information, personal data, passwords, unpublished financial information and anything you do not have permission to share.
How to give useful context and direction
Good prompting is closer to briefing a smart new colleague than typing keywords into a search box. You practise explaining the goal, audience, constraints and desired format, then improve the result through conversation.
How to judge the answer
AI output is a draft, not an authority. You learn to check facts, remove invented details, protect your own voice and decide whether the result is actually useful.
What you leave with
You will choose one useful outcome—not try to make everything below—and finish it with guidance in the room.
- The proposal or quote that normally takes two hours
- Reusable drafts for the five emails you write every week
- A month of marketing content shaped from one conversation
- The client onboarding document you have never had time to write
- A hiring kit: job post, screening questions and interview scorecard
- A clearer version of a policy, process or long document
Where this Maryland workshop takes place
The table is in a private home in Havre de Grace, Harford County—about 45 minutes from Baltimore and about 75 minutes from Philadelphia by car, depending on traffic. The exact address and arrival details are shared after booking.
Aberdeen station is served by both MARC and Amtrak. If you are considering rail, email before booking so we can help you check the last leg to the private venue.
Why a women-only room?
Research across more than 100 countries has found a gender gap in generative AI adoption. Workplace encouragement and the fear that using AI will be judged as cheating are part of that gap. A small women-only session creates room to experiment without needing to perform confidence first.
Read the evidence in our briefing on the AI confidence gap.